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Monsters and Their Meanings in Early Modern Culture
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Wes Williams
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Wes Williams explores the place of monsters in the early modern imagination, charting the migration of the monstrous from natural history to moral philosophy, f
Monsters and their Meanings in Early Modern Culture
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Wes Williams
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-26 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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To call something 'monstrueux' in the mid-sixteenth century is, more often than not, to wonder at its enormous size: it is to call to mind something like a whal
Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance
Language: en
Pages: 221
Authors: Touba Ghadessi
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-13 - Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

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At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance
Constructing Monsters in Shakespeare's Drama and Early Modern Culture
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Mark Thornton Burnett
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-10-28 - Publisher: Springer

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Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the crucial place of the 'monster' in the early modern imagination. Burnett t
Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Peter G. Platt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: University of Delaware Press

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""The marvelous follows us always" - or so the Italian philosopher Francesco Patrizi asserted in 1587. The essays in this book collectively make the case that t